run their recount clown show in arizona. the cyber ninjas and this same cast of characters indulging this voter fraud fantasy thing. in addition to them messing with the ballots and what they're doing with the election results in arizona, they have been th pursuing a court case in michigan a county call antra county, michigan. and in the michigan instance they have also been alleging al these same bizarre conspiracies and fantasies about how trump secretly won re-election even though it looks like he lost because something, something, bamboo something, something communism, venezuela, mike flynn, buy my pillow, something, something. they have been pursuing this in, arizona with the recount, which is now completely split the republican party, as half the party is like we've got to stop doing this and the trump loyalists are persisting. in michigan, today, as republicans in arizona were throwing down the gauntlet demanding an end to the increasingly dangerous nonsense with arizona's ballots there, simultaneously today, the othe

arizona is particularly interesting to me. that is because demographically arizona exists as a microcosm of what we are seeing. you know this well, spearheaded a movement in arizona following passage of a state law that targeted undocumented immigrants. your efforts recalled the bill to defeat joe arapahoe. i want you to talk about arizona in your eyes being the example of what we're seeing when it comes to the national reaction to hard line immigration policy efforts. >> yeah. well, arizona is a state that has been invested. people that have been effected by bad policy like sb 1070 or gutting of our education system have come out and organized. figured out how to organize year-round, engage our communities who are usually not part of the decision-making process, we figured out how to build strong coalitions, and that's what's gotten us here to this moment where arizona is a battleground state. arizona is at play, it was at play in 2018, in 2020, and will continue to be at play. but the beauty is that we continue to build a mo

it's very dangerous. >> it's not just arizona. yesterday i spoke with michigan attorney general about the impact of the big lie on her state. let's take a listen to what she had to say about that. >> i don't know how we're ever going to get back on course after what we seen in our state. i don't know how we'll get to a point where the average voter in the state of michigan will ever believe what we know to be true, which is our elections are safe, secure and accurate. >> that's pretty stunning. how concerned are you for the same affect in arizona? >> it is vr stunning. i do have concerns but the fact of the majority of arizona voters across the board, not necessarily in one particular party but most voters do have faith in the election systems and the security and fairness of our elections and they also don't support what's going on here with this fake audit. they see it for the sham that it is and they honestly tired of this partisan games. that is a big part of the reason i'm running for governor to get to work on real issues fo

and arizona, this is called ohpi, a power ranking among arizona figures. it says you are number one among arizona registered voters, number three among democrats. does that popularity across the board give you kind of a public forum to be able to speak against this? what has been the result of you trying to talk this down? >> well, i certainly think it speaks to where arizonans are on this audit. they're tired of the partisan politics, and i've had the chance to show leadership and stand up for the integrity of our elections. and that is what we're seeing right now, arizonans want leader who will stand up on the side of what is true and right. >> you're now running for governor. if you win, do you just assume that the republican state legislature will say, no, you didn't win, and refuse to seat you? >> they certainly have proposed laws that would allow them to overturn the will of the voters. fortunately, this year, those laws didn't get passed. but i could see them continuing to propose these kinds of laws in the future. i think anything that was passed i

arizona is the latest circus act for trump supporters in arizona where a questionable florida firm is in charge of the audit of the november presidential election count. from today's "the new york times" reporting on this, quote, almost half a year after the election mr. trump lost the promised audit has been a snipe hunt for skull dug ri. there's death threats for the elected official just the civil war in the gop is a hot one since november with the mccain family and republican governor smeared in the process. the ceremonial audit is conducted by a firm called cyber ninjas. quote the head of florida based firm that republican senators hired to oversee the audit has embraced trump's baseless theories of election theft and suggestioned that mr. trump won arizona by 200,000 votes why the faux audit will be broadcast on one america new just the pro-trump news organization that's under fire for peddling trump's big lie blurring all lines of a trump news channel. one america started a fund-raiser to finance the spectacle. and according to "the new york times" has been named a nonpartisan

your son went out to arizona and then what happened? >> well, my son is from charleston, south carolina straight out of college he came out to arizona to tucson to take a class. from there, he landed his job in phoenix. he was happy to be here in arizona mainly so because he's a geologist and gave him the opportunity to work his profession and do the things that he loved. >> so when your son went missing, how long did it take before the last time you heard from him and when you said okay, young people sometimes won't check in. when did you make the connection that this is something other than him not just checking in? >> well, you know, my daughter, she live in phoenix, also. the people from his job came over there to her apartment and notified her that they was looking for her. of course, she called me or her mother. she called me about it. we didn't think anything too bad other than, you know, he was starting to not answer his phone. after i realized it was from the time he -- they say he was last seen at his job and the time that he

watch arizona go over. first we reported on the show last night that i had seen, our staff had obtained and seen, a draft version of the arizona audit report. ahead of its formal release today. that and because those results were gonna be formally released today, we decided not to put those reported results of the draft on television. after all, a draft report could be revised substantially before the final results came out. we decided that nobody really believes what's gonna be in the audit anyway, we're gonna wait until the audit release. i did tell you last night that what we were seeing in the draft report showing that the results of the arizona audit where somewhat hilarious. well today, we got the final report. they released it to the public. and indeed, in fact, it matches with the draft that we saw last night. and hilarity did in fact ensue. after their five months of trying and searching for bamboo fibers and using uv lights and putting the ballots on lazy susan's hands putting them around, and a h

try and disenfranchise the new arizona voter. i have been working in arizona for 15 years and when i got here we had a deficit of more than almost 150 voter registrations, and there was no democrats elected and i worked with young activists to change the state, but i didn't try and change the laws to benefit me, but that's what the republicans are doing because their platforms are not attractive to those in arizona now. >> and it has provisions for voting by mail, nonpartisan redistricting and same-day voter registration. how would this change the landscape when we talk about voting rights? >> at a minimum, what it will stop is this type you have on voting rights that occurs on a case by case and state by state basis. i think it's pretty funny and sad at the same time that a lot of what republicans are attacking now, is the early voting initiatives, it was brought by republicans and it only became bipartisan when latinos started using it and then republicans started to pass laws against it. so if anything, the best we could do is

arizona gop, biden won again. pennsylvania gop, we're still going to subpoena 8 million of your social security numbers, driver's licenses, dates of birth and to an unsecured database handed over to a dude off the penny saver and bleep away millions of your tax dollars. and here we are. >> yeah. well, i mean, that about sums it up, and you know, the arizona audit was basically the burning man for the election fraud kooks and that's crashed and burned. in fact, i think biden actually gained some votes so really what you're looking at now is a complete -- >> we see -- there you are. we saw you get bigger for a second. there you are. >> yeah. >> life in the time of zoom. i'm sorry, keep going. >> yeah. so, what we saw is a complete collapse of that baseless conspiracy in arizona. in fact, i think joe biden actually added maybe 80 or 90 votes, and that margin in arizona was only 10,000 votes, whereas in pennsylvania, it's 80,000 by joe biden's victory. so, i mean, this idea is beyond the lunatic fringe, and no one kno

>> to arizona. and it was stuffed into the box, okay. and it came from the southeast part of the world, asia, okay. and what they're doing is to find out if there's bamboo in the paper. >> that's right. fake auditors led by the cyber ninjas are looking for bamboo fibers based off of lies that 40,000 ballots from asia were smuggled into maricopa county to tip the state to biden because, of course, anything involving asia must be laced with bamboo. no, this isn't the maga remake of the forensic files, this is unfortunately real life. the ongoing charade reveals deeply disturbing patterns that could pave the way for republicans to contest any fair and honest election they don't win. meaning any party can question, probe and bamboo search your vote if it doesn't go their way. that doesn't sound like democracy to me. or to the department of justice, who sent a letter to arizona senate president karen fan expressing concern over ballot security because federal law requires ballots to remain in the control of elections officials for 22 months.

he does seem to be taking pages right out of the arizona playbook. in arizona, the republican state senate leader used her subpoena power to force the board of elections to turn over ballots. this pennsylvania state senator also runs a committee that theoretically has subpoena power. in arizona, the state senate fronted $150,000 to pay for their so-called audit. the rest of the funding for it is coming from sources that nobody involved will disclose. this pennsylvania state senator is also trying to secure funding for an audit and has sought advice from a law firm about how to go about using money from a private non-profit organization to pay for vendors, consultants and anyone else. in arizona, all the republicans involved in the so-called audit have been claiming that it's not about overturning the 2020 election. it's about restoring integrity to the state's elections. right on cue in pennsylvania, a law firm tapped by the republican state senator said in a letter that the purpose of such an audit would be to -- hope you are sitting down -- develop

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let's look at arizona for a moment. the leader for the republican party in that state is calling for another so-called audit of the election results after the latest attempt blew up if their faces and confirmed what we all already knew. biden won. that fact doesn't matter and now texas is launching a similar so-called audit of the election results in four major counties. so while the gop fixates on attempting to re-write reality, democrats are focused on real issues and the work of governing and given that one party in the two-party system is dedicated to delusion, that's not going to be easy. >> joining me to discuss this is haze brown, the writer and editor of the msnbc daily newsletter. it is so good to see you. i've missed you doing other stuff in the last two weeks and i needed your wisdom on this. democrats are bickering and they're going to tank biden's domestic agenda. progressives and moderates can't get along and in my world i'm sitting here thinking we've actually got governing going on, we've actually got de

it's actually made arizona stronger. this is why we're a fast-growing state. we have one of the highest amounts of growth and we're going to continue to really be a leader in the country. >> i do want to ask you this. we've been hearing about the january 6th insurrection, republicans downplayed the riot. here's what was said. >> my constituents demand answers, but the truth is being censored and covered up. as a result is the doj is harassing peaceful patriots across the country. >> congressman david cicilline started it. do you agree that's necessary? >> i'm going to look at it so i can't tell you necessarily now. but what is necessary is that, you know, these republicans, whether it's gosar or others need to quit with the two big lies. number one, that there was fraudulent elections and biden wasn't legitimately elected and there wasn't a violent insurrection on january 6th. as a matter of fact, we have a low grade insurrection happening right now with the former guy and his allies in congress. it was there. i saw it. i saw police officers that were beaten u

and arizona law. and there was an original worrying, and i've been voicing this for months, that they would not know what they were looking at. and so, where they are for use whatever they found as a justification to further their narrative of these conspiracy theories that we've been seeing. >> which we did see. for example, the maricopa county board of elections ended up fact checking on twitter some of the most critical issues that they. said that that said, i don't think anyone was surprised by trump's comments last night. he's keeping focused on these partisan audits in other states. but how is what happened in arizona, frankly the embarrassment there, not a deterrent in these other states? er states? it's >> not a deterrent in the other states, quite frankly, because of the success they've had with both generating revenue and money. they brought in millions and millions of private dollars to fund this particular event. and it's mostly dark money. we don't exactly know where all the money is comi

the democratic party in arizona filed a lawsuit yesterday to try to stop this from going forward in arizona. they said the whole enterprise was illegal. today the judge in the case agreed to pause the audit over the weekend while the merits of their lawsuit were considered but that pause came with an odd price tag. the judge told the arizona democratic party that if the audit was going to be paused, the democratic party in the state would have to pay $1 million to cover any costs associated with the delay. the cyber ninja ceo running the audit up until now has refused to say how much the audit will cost in total. the controversy of the audit is he's not only taking taxpayer money to do it, he's also taking private donations from undeclared sources to carry this out, which means trump supporters could be paying for this cyber ninjas company to run a recount on whether or not trump won the election. somehow the judge in this case decided that a delay would cost the cyber ninja company upwards of $1 million and arizona democrats had to indemnify them for that. the democrats refused to do that

i think a lot of people were very excited to see that arizona helped push joe biden over, but arizona is not a blue state. it is won by the thinnest of margins and some recent polling i have seen shows that many republicans there, and many voters in arizona, they would vote for joe biden again if he was running against trump, but if he was running against another republican, he would be in a tight race. talk about some of the voter suppression laws that have been passed by republicans in the state that they're hoping will play into being able to send that state back to the republican column in 2024. >> well, i think what we have seen since the election by folks who are not happy about the outcome is an orchestrated effort to continue to undermine the integrity of elections, continue to sow doubt in confidence and to make it harder for those voters to vote. and simply because they don't like the outcome of the election. and so, you know, this is really unfortunate. it's why i have continued to stand up for the process that we oversaw in 2020, which was free and fair, and the results we

so, how is the result in arizona not deterring them? >> well, because this is now part of the fabric of trumpism, and we know he still controls much of the party, if not all of it, and his endorsement matters, which is what we'll see in georgia tonight. so you see people follow trump's playbook, and they're going to do this in other states but i would also suggest -- >> does his endorsement matter? we're going to see him rallying for people in georgia but haven't we already seen some of the candidates that he has endorsed in primaries lose? >> it can either win elections or it causes the party to lose, true, but he has not been replaced. we have not seen the emergence of a desantis or somebody else that steps forward that has greater control than donald trump. but very importantly, i think this also empowers democrats' agenda. there's a corollary here on the voting protection bill in washington, d.c., because an individual's right to vote is a federal right, but we trust our states to administer the elections and that right, and so wash

arizona republic reporting this. quote, senate audit liaison and former arizona secretary of state ken bennett said saturday that there was no deadline for the audit and that the recount may need to be paused on may 14th when veterans memorial toll coliseum is reserved to host graduations. the back pedaling comes just days after bennett told reporters he was confident workers would wrap up by may 14th and despite plans to increase the number of ballot counters and shifts starting may 3rd. the effort was shrouded in mystery when it first began. reporters were not even allowed to observe, but a judge then denied the request by cyber ninjas, the questionable company leading the counting, if we can call it that, for the audit to be done in secret. and on friday, an arizona republic reporter was escorted from the site. quote, after posting a photo showing a former republican legislator at a ballot counting table. the photo showed a ballot with no markings discernable on a vertical stand in front of former state representa

, to audit the arizona election results. we reported last night that all 2 million plus ballots arrived in phoenix at the convention center worth are doing this as of yesterday. the official audit led by the cyber ninjas guy began today, the cyber ninjas say they hired a subcontractor to actually physically handled the ballots, the ceo of cyber ninjas, who again is the guy who is the proponent of the theory that u.s. army commandoes in germany stole the real election server and got in a war with the cia and the truth is out there. he says that the company he's hired to handle all of the ballots has drawn their employees for this purpose from a pool of retirees to perform the recount. who is actually going to be handling the ballots? he says don't worry they are retirees the says the retirees veterans, former law enforcements, no further details are available. no word on any trainee they may or may not have received to handle all of the actual ballots cast in the presidential election, but now they've got them. meanwhile jour

arizona republicans hired this guy and gave him two-thirds of the actual ballots cast by real arizona residents in the presidential race in november. he says he's going to do some sort of secret analysis of those ballots and then report what the real election results were in arizona. again, this effort is being led by a qanon guy who has supported all of the craziest stop the steal conspiracy theories about how trump didn't really lose the election. well, here's the news. until tonight, the only press allowed inside to report on this so-called audit is the whackadoo pro-trump news network which is called american news which has hyped conspiracy theories around the election and whose on-air personalities have raised money to conduct this so-called vote count in arizona. one of the real journalists who actually made it into the room to watch some of this audit was only able to get in because she signed up as a volunteer observer, and that allowed her to be in on the first day. she wasn't allowed in after that and no journalists have been allowed in since then. it's just the one news peo

the next state to try this won't be as stupid as arizona was. and it's be as stupid as arizona was. and it is already happening in republican states around the country. it might not look at the spectacle around the state. but here's what it looks like. restrictive voting laws, poll watchers who intimidate voters, polling locations disappearing and restricting. and that's what should scare you. just because an injustice does not have an impact on your life does not mean it is your problem. our continuing attempts at a more perfect union fall short lt one day you are enjoying the privileges of democracy and then, poof, they're gone. almost like, dare i say it, a ninja. the fraudit was never a real threat. they were amateur grifters who literally had one job they could not deliver on for republicans. but for more real competent forces at work trying to decide whose votes count and they might succeed where arizona failed. democracy itself hangs in the balance, and our work here is far from done. you can always spot a first time gain flings user. ♪ psst! psst! allergies don't have to b

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we saw that just recently in arizona. and we see it every single day in the response that trump generates politically. >> if anybody wants to see it, they can just google your name and the "washington post," but you have written numerous fact-checking articles literally point by point debunking some of the comments that trump has made regarding the audit in arizona here. but do you think that the people who need to hear that are listening? >> no, absolutely not. it's really disheartening to do this work and sit down and say, here is exactly what this -- even if you want to treat this report as credible, which, by itself, i mean, it's a product of a bad faith effort to try to cast doubt on the election itself but even if you want to treat it as credible, what donald trump says it says is obviously not what it says. all you have to do is crack it open and look at it but because donald trump just lies about things all the time and lies about these claims of fraud, you just can't make any headway because people don't want to

that are populating the arizona senate. i don't know what's going to happen on this commission in washington. but i do know this. for every police officer that wants to sit down and talk to a republican -- there are active police officers that are asking republicans for a few minutes. and then the family of a police officer who lost his life. every time they are denied the opportunity to talk to republicans, more and more republican voters are turned off by that. it may only be 25% or 35% of the republicans. that's enough to win national elections and elections in states like arizona that could go either way. >> that's an important point, charlie. the reason i connected directly to go from one to the other is it feels like the big lie is a state/federal partnership. the idea that if you can make it so only republicans count the votes, we siphon off anyone with integrity, republicans or any democrats, they can't touch it, we will make sure we win. we will put our hands down and say, now democracy is fine. we are in power. th

voters in arizona are tired of this. they want real leadership. and they want folks that are going to tackle real problems. rehashing the 2020 election is not one of them. >> secretary hobbs, it's easy for people to watch what is happening in arizona or watch what is happening in texas or watch what is happening in georgia and say, that's just arizona, that's just texas, that's just georgia. i don't live in any of these three states. can you talk to me a little bit about how all of these threats weave together and the way in which they challenge not just democracy in the state of arizona, but democracy writ large. >> absolutely. we've been having conversations secretaries of state and other election officials across the country who are concerned about this fake audit in maricopa county. we've seen legislators from other states come and tour and try to bring this kind of thing to their state, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, georgia. there's a lot of concern about this. the goal here is not to validate the 2020 election results, to continue to so

it does seem like she answers to no one your colleague from arizona. i mean, here she is dodging reporters on the hill as ever. she doesn't speak to journalists. she doesn't speak to her constituents. i believe she has not held a town hall since 2018. she doesn't speak to her own colleagues. correct me if i'm wrong. is it clear to you or any of your fellow democratic senators where she stands on this bill? would you treat the people of minnesota the way she treats the people of arizona? >> mehdi, i thought you were going to say i was missing from the meeting in delaware. you know, there were two senators there. >> fair point. you haven't been the block thankfully that she has. that's the caveat. >> that's right. i think that the point i'm making here is not everybody is there in delaware but all of us are weighing in. i have to say i had a productive conversation with my colleague senator sinema last week about climate which is the thing that i have been working on the hardest to include in this build back better budget. so, you know, at the end of the

arizona's electoral votes. that's because we've seen a big surge in latino voters, mefrm voters and native american voters for the first time in a long time, not just registering but turning out to vote. they've made it harder for folks because they lost the last election. instead of playing by the rules which they lost by, they're trying to make it harder for communities of color. the decision by the u.s. supreme court was disappointing but not surprising because what we see with the conservative majority in the supreme court is an attempt to slowly make it harder for communities of color, rural americans, rural arizonaans to have access to the ballot box. it is disappointing but not surprising. we have heard next year that the republican colleagues in the legislature will be introducing some of the more onerous restrictions and ways to make it harder for people to access the ballot box. it will be a full-on war not just this year but next year when we go back to legislative session in january. >> you saw demo

into arizona. and it was stuffed into the box. and it came from, the southeast part of the world, asia. and what they're doing, is to find out if there is bamboo in the paper. that camera right there, that they take a picture of the ballot. >> they came over, from the southeast part of the world, and they put it in the box. there you go. trump is president. they are looking for bamboo, in the ballots. because trump is secretly president, because china, or maybe just asia, made bamboo ballots and flew them to arizona, and they can find them with a camera. so they have to use the camera, and all of the ballots. republican parties in the verge of kicking out some of their house leadership. because of insufficient loyalty, to donald trump. donald trump, is now the animated focus of the republican party right now. because of their absolute outrage that he is not being allowed back on social media, to keep promoting the idea, that he secretly won the election. he wants to promote the fact that arizona's recount is going to prove, that h

it starts in one county in arizona. then what? arizona doesn't do it. >> sure. if you talk to trump or if you look at his statements, he is focusing on the swing states. he is talking arizona, georgia, pennsylvania. where we have actually seen this bubbling up from local activists has been in small places. really, republican-controlled places. what appears to be the strategy is this is local people focusing on counties where they believe they might find friendly local officials. they are fixated on this false and disproven theory that dominion voting machines could have somehow flipped votes. they are focused on republican counties that used dominion machines with the goal it appears of trying to come up with some vulnerability or anomaly that they spotted in the dominion machines, even if places that voted for trump, that they can argue, my goodness, if this happened in a republican county in north michigan, it might have happened all over the country. >> it's an interesting strategy. do you see any other organizations like cyber ninja popping up anywhere else?

what a thing that's going on in arizona. we've seen a lot of silly things going on with respect to vote counting in states, but the arizona thing crosses a few lines in terms of access to reporters to cover it, in terms of the idea that the rules have been set by a company, not a government or elected officials and in terms of the fact that the head of that company seems to support the big lie of a stolen election. >> it's good to see you. last time i was with you, you were standing out in the middle of the desert with a cowboy hat on, freezing. i said write it down, joe biden will win arizona. i don't know. these people can't get over it. they lost. in every election somebody loses. most people can take it and some people can't. so i agree with you, this is totally over the line, totally out of control. these are not just -- look, i was -- i've been a life-long republican until trump. we also had a few of these people as do democrats who are on the fringe. they're pretty wacky. you know, they were on the fringe. now they're

the former president now demands the governor of arizona provide large-scale security for arizona senate republicans carrying out another audit of the 2020 race results there. the former president says in a statement, state police or national guard must be immediately sent out for protection. the democrats did not want to have this information revealed, they will do anything to stop it. it is not clear with the former president thinks democrats will attempt to do. joining us now, i suppose is one of those democrats, democratic arizona chairwoman. i want to get your reaction to former president trump demands for the national guard to be called in. what is he talking about here, for people who have not been following this closely? >> wow. well, our reaction is that, himself and so many individuals well a very vocal group of people as long as they believe that the election was stolen, that includes our arizona state senate president, and republicans in the arizona state legislator who are moving forward with an audit of the maricopa county elections of 2020. frankly, it is very nerve rackin

county or the arizona senate. we know there's been private dollars raised for this endeavor, one of the criticisms is they seem to be grifting off this exercise. we don't even where the money is coming from, how much it is or who is profiting off of it. that's where the costs should come from to replace the equipment but i don't know at the end of the day if that's what's going to happen. >> one more question for you, and that is this. how damaging really has this fake audit, this fraudulent audit, been for arizona voters? do you believe that lasting damage has been done to the legitimacy of the vote in arizona, in maricopa county? >> there is absolutely lasting damage that has been done. this is a group of folks who are being misled to continue to believe that the election was fraudulent and that joe biden isn't the actual winner. and as long as these folks continue to promote that mistruth, these folks are going to believe it. and that in the long run is harmful to not only arizona voters but we're seeing this a

this is from the arizona mirror. quote, jovan pulitzer, a favorite of election fraud conspiracy theorists who claims to have invented technology to detect fraudulent ballots will have a role in the arizona senate's audit of the 2020 election results. ken bennett, arizona's former secretary of state, who has been hired to be a spokesperson, et confirms his involvement, although he's unsure whether pulitzer himself will be involved or whether the audit team will only be using his technology, when pulitzer claims can detect fraudulent ballots. mr. bennett said the owner and t ceo of cyber ninjas told him he consulted with mr. pulitzer while designing the process used to test the ballots. pulitzer is an inventor, and inventor of cuecat. and author of dozens of books on treasure hunting. he does not appear to have any background in elections related work. it is unclear whether pulitzer's alleged technology has ever been used on ballots or whether anyone has confirmed it works. he's explained in an affidavit related to the

he will also be in arizona. appearing at a new fun filled event full of pro trump qanon promoting, election fraud is broad conspiracy theories. also there tomorrow, will be the failed inventor and treasure hunter guy who secret vote fraud detecting technology is allegedly being used in the faith arizona audit. because he said artifacts are his specialty. the event will also be attended by the guy patrick byrne, who used to run oversaw come. you might remember him from the really dark days after the attack on the capital on january six, after the election. when he admitted that he was at a white house meeting, sat flash screaming match, in which the idea of seizing voting machines all over the country and declaring martial law in order to overturn the election, was the topic of discussion in the oval office. mr. burned claims that he's personally donated at least 1 million dollars to fund the recount slash audit in our zone. which if you think about it really, is a key part of the problem here. what is happening

republicans for doing this to recount the vote in arizona. promising that this same thing, this same kind of audit is going to happen in all of the republican-controlled states where trump lost, wisconsin, michigan, georgia, new hampshire, pennsylvania. he called them all out by name, basically telling them all they need to do what arizona is doing. they need a republican-led private recount hiring just the right kind of firm to do this work with the real ballots. he says they're going to do this in all those states and overturn the results in all those states. yeah f you get just the right people in there to conduct this audit. sure it will go exactly the way you want it to. the firm run by the qanon trump conspiracy theory guy, the firm that's been given the contract recount in arizona, as i mentioned that firm is called cyber ninjas and that firm through their lawyer told a judge this weekend that they will not disclose the means by which they are conducting the audit, nor the processes they are using to handle the ballots or indeed recoun

joe biden won both arizona and georgia. the numbers were close, but re-count after re-count after re-count yield the same results. the county judge in georgia just granted a review of absentee ballots in fulton county, home to atlanta, based on a lawsuit filed by an election integrity advocate known to be obsessed with debunked claims touted by trump. and then there's arizona where even republicans who supported the cyber ninja's re-count in maricopa maricopa want it to end, especially after "the hill" reported claims from auditors were actually errors made by the auditors. and now, turns out, advocates who want to overturn roe see the gop's attacks is an open door. they're funding anti-voting efforts in the name of election integrity because, as "the guardian" reports, anti-abortion groups are seeing trimming the electorate essential to achieving their goals. a heartbeat bill was signed, banning abortions before most people know they're pregnant. it is a big deal considering the supreme court announces it will hear an abor

eyes and arizona trump elector. because he contended that arizona's trump electors should be counted. . because trump should be awarded the state votes in the electoral college. so, he was day that there that. the count, you may recall it was delayed that day by the mob attack on the capital which temporarily stopped the counting. but he was there in person, so arizona would have its electoral votes counted for trump. he was there, january 6th. and he's also now announced that he will be working on this recount of arizona votes that are starting today, organized by the arizona republican state senate. he and the sovereign in just a guy who promotes the secret server germany story. and you know, joe biden is president of the united states. whatever they do in arizona it is not going to make him not president of the united states. but, what they are doing in arizona, what has trump world electrified right now, all newly energized with the fantasy that trump world has yet to be reinstated as president, with a just orde

. >> who do you think won arizona on november 3rd? chanting: trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump! >> you know, that's how we feel in georgia, too. >> no matter how many times it is said, the simple truth is known, joe biden won both arizona and georgia. yes, the numbers were close, but recount after recount after recount yields the same results. the county judge in georgia just granted review of absentee ballots in fulton county, home to atlanta, based on a lawsuit filed by an election integrity advocate well-known to be obsessed with debunked claims that are touted by trump. >>> and then there's arizona where even republicans who supported the cyber ninja's recount in maricopa county just want it to end, especially after "the hill" reported how claims of errors from the auditors, from the auditors, were actually errors made by the auditors. >>> now it turns out advocates who want to overturn roe see the gop's attacks on voting rights as an open door. they're now funding anti-voting efforts in the name of election integrit

in the largest county in arizona. and arizona, a majority of voters live in just one county, maricopa county, where phoenix is. in november maricopa county and arizona as a whole voted for joe biden as president. as much as trump supporters may not like that, it's true. there's already been an audit by a federally accredited firm in maricopa county, a forensic audit of the vote. there was a hand recount overseen. there was a hand recount by four of which were republicans. they voted to certify that joe biden won the election. but not anymore. now in late april, the cyber ninja guy, the cyber ninja guy from the secret server in germany secret commando raid war conspiracy thing, arizona republicans sued to allow his company, him and his company, to have another look at what happened in arizona back in november. and they have actually turned over all of the real ballots, more than 2 million ballots cast in maricopa county, so the trump conspiracy theory guy, the qanon secret server war guy can see what he thinks happened

with me now democratic arizona congressman ruben gallego. could barely get through the read, so many parts made no sense. election was five months ago, challenges in your state that didn't find evidence of fraud. what is what happening here? >> three things, number one, this is a scam to take money from slow and dim-witted that don't want to accept the results. and way to prop up hurt feelings in arizona because they lost the race and state is turning blue. ironic, trump people supposed to be tough. and stage an issue to pass more voter suppression laws. not unnoticed that one state senator in arizona said i want to wait until the audit is done in order to pass more laws. audit is a sham. why hire anyone named cyberninjas? and we're not clear who is paying for it. judge said we needed to put $1 million bond on it to support the stoppage of this. when initially all the state has given was $150,000. who is paying for other portion of the audit? clearly not just arizona state government, should also make us question what nefarious involvement i

now she's headed to arizona university. she is 12. she will pursue a dual degree in astronomical and planetary science and chemistry. the educational process is all part of her big goal of landing a post-college job as a nasa engineer by the age of 16. it is a lofty goal for some but not alina. she loves stem, science, technology, engineering and math, and has a desire to build space rovers and drive them in space as well. she has been fuelled by the recent success of the ingenuity copter to mars posting, one day i will be on one of those teams. here is what she told a local news station, quote, i just had a goal that i wanted to get to. it doesn't matter what your age or what you're planning to do. go for it, dream, then accomplish it. in addition to starting college she plans to start a podcast and launch a website to inspire more girls to dream big. you will hear more about individuals inspiring america, which airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on nbc and again tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. don't miss it. >>> speaking of

earlier this week, an arizona republican state representative introduced a bill that would give the arizona legislature the authority to override the secretary of state's certification of it electoral votes. they do not even need a reason. okay? this state law, the people of arizona. again, they could vote for whatever they want to be president. but they don't get to choose. the legislator will decide who gets the electoral votes. this is not an isolated situation. we've seen similar movements. not quite as frankly as anti-democratic as this but in wisconsin, republicans interested to reallocate the state's electoral votes by congressional district. something two states already do and if they've done that, would have made donald trump the winner of the majority of wisconsin's electoral votes if it had been in place in the last election. the guardian reports considering more than 100 bills to restrict voting rights because the lesson they learned after losing the presidential election and also the senate is not to broaden their appeal or to shun donald trump and the things he stood for or to